[Latingp] Diacritics Below

Meikal Mumin meikal at mumin.de
Mon May 6 12:46:54 UTC 2019


Dear colleagues,

If you can't tell which diacritic is used, that would logically be a case for a variant relationship between all potential options, but not the unmodified basic letter shape itself.

Best,

Meikal
Am 6. Mai 2019, 14:34 +0200 schrieb Michael Bauland <Michael.Bauland at knipp.de>:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On 02.05.2019 17:33, Bill Jouris wrote:
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > I would like to show why I think the various diacritics below (not just
> > dot and macron) ought to be accounted variants as well.  And I thought
> > I'd do it as an email, because that's likely to be the way (along with
> > links on web pages) that most people will get links.
> >
> > By way of example, consider one of the original TLDs: .mil
> >
> > _www.teștexampļe1.mil <http://www.xn--exampe-0cb.mil/>_
> > _www.testexampḽe2.mil _
> > www.testexample3.miḽ <http://www.testexample3.miḽ>
> > _www.tesțexample4.miļ <http://www.example.xn--mi-gqa/>_
> >
> > Can you honestly say that you can tell which cases of .mil have
> > diacritcs under the L?
>
> > And if you think you can, did you notice which
> > cases of "testexample" had them? And which diacritic? Because I sure
> > can't.
>
> Yes, I can honestly say that I can see something under the l of example
> for the first two cases and something under the l of mil in the last two
> cases (plus some other strange things under s in the first and t in the
> last case.
>
> Which diacritic however, is something I could not tell.
>
> Furthermore in the first and the last case the actual link didn't match
> shown address, but that's a complete different problem, out of our scope.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
> --
> ____________________________________________________________________
> | |
> | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
> ------- Technologiepark
> Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9
> 44227 Dortmund
> Germany
>
> Dipl.-Informatiker Fon: +49 231 9703-0
> Fax: +49 231 9703-200
> Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland at knipp.de
> Software Development E-mail: Michael.Bauland at knipp.de
>
> Register Court:
> Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728
>
> Chief Executive Officers:
> Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp
> _______________________________________________
> Latingp mailing list
> Latingp at icann.org
> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/latingp
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/latingp/attachments/20190506/7622d349/attachment.html>


More information about the Latingp mailing list